Freedom

Today I am thinking of what it means to be free. The opportunity for success and for failure. The sky's the limit and the ground is hard. That with it WE control our own destiny. There was someone else who wanted all men to do things a certain way and offered a guarantee of success, unfortunately it also stripped us of the freedom of choice, the freedom to EARN what we desired, rather than have it delivered to us like a pizza. That plan was rejected by the greatest Authority that I recognize. I think that says something about the current administrations ideas and plans for the Country.

We the People, however have an obligation to fight for what is our inheritance. Not with guns, at least not at first. Not until the government tries to take them away at least. What we need to start with is ACTION. Making phone calls to Representatives, talking to our neighbors (remember when neighbors TALKED?!), organizing groups in our communities to raise our voices. Attend Tea Parties. Let elected officials at all levels know that there is so much that we will put up with and that level has come and gone. We are tired of constantly adjusting our budgets to make do with less and less while they pile one new tax after another that takes money out of OUR pocketbooks and food off of OUR tables so that they can fund some asinine program like studying the mating habits of buffalo in Montana!!! If there are legitimate programs that NEED funding, then they need to see what needs to be cut out of the budget to free up that money. We need to start over with Representatives having term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and make these bums have to live by the same laws that they pass for us. There are a whole slew of reforms that need to be made to clean up the mess by the whole political establishment that I won't go into, yet. But first things first. We NEED to stop the EXCESSIVE spending. WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY!!! WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY!!! With every billion and trillion dollars that these scheming community organizers spend, it is that much more damning to our nation. We won't be able to pay it off and there WILL COME A DAY OF RECKONING. We WILL answer for this spending and it will be a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE day. When that day comes, if it comes because we sat back and whined and complained and TALKED about how bad things were instead of DOING something, then we will have gotten what we deserved. We sold our freedom for the moment. We sold our children's and grandchildren's inheritance and well-being so that we could live in a culture of entitlements. We will have traded that which was truly precious and valuable and desirable above all other things for ashes.

The Founding Fathers foresaw this day. They KNEW that we would need to be constantly "fighting" to maintain our freedoms. That is why they granted us the FREEDOM of speech, so that we can write unpopular things. The FREEDOM to assemble, to let our leaders know that they do NOT have the mandate of the masses. The FREEDOM of religion, to ask God to help us out of the mess that we have created for ourselves and to ask HIM to lead and inspire our nation, to watch over and protect it. And ULTIMATELY the FREEDOM to keep and bear arms so that when Washington got so high and mighty and started thinking that they know better than US what things are in OUR best interest, that we would have the capability of throwing them out and starting over with those who still see the Constitution as the bedrock of this nation and not act willy nilly totally disregarding it and us.

Goodbye America

I've been watching with interest (and horror) the previous 5 and a half months as the viral infection known as Progressivism/Liberalism/Socialism/Marxism has come out from behind the scenes and is glorying in its heyday of approval and acceptance as a left embracing media has embraced a left embracing government and we see the results of that union. Suddenly government is taking over the nations financial centers, the automobile industry and coming soon, the medical industry. Do you want an organization that can't run, well, ANYHTING including oh, say MediCare and MedicAid which are in the same field, suddenly in charge of choosing your doctor, deciding what medication you can get, and at what age you no longer qualify for life extending medical procedures? Me neither. And with the hubris of our President, "I won the election, so the debate is over" we get both barrels as he decides what is in our best interest, and coming soon, the Seudetenland. Followed by Czechoslovakia. Doh, wrong dictator, I mean Supreme Ruler, I mean democratically elected (with a little help from ACORN- and VOTER FRAUD in at least 15 states) leader. He won't denounce Iran as they crack down on protesters (perhaps because he wants to reserve the same power should there be an election result that he disagrees with) and at the same time he immediately denounces Hondurans for throwing out their President just because he wanted to twist their Constitution so that it gave hime more power. Again, maybe because he wants to be able to reserve the same power for himself. You did REAL good America electing this guy to be your President... And we also have North Korea who is flagrantly violating international agreements it has entered into to NOT develop nuclear weapons. They are throwing it in our faces as they develop ICMS with longer and longer ranges. Then you also have the Somali pirates who we could take out in about 8 hours (that's giving the pirates a LOT of credit and saying that our own Navy SEALS are hampered with Rules of Engagement like, You need to ask them pretty please with a cherry on top to surrender BEFORE actually loading your gun and lets not even get into what it would take to actually POINT IT at somebody. (Remember the saying we do more by 9 A.M. than most people do all day?) but we tolerate and allow them to harass (mild word) commercial shipping and private yachts sailing those waters. We have become a "kinder gentler" nation (NOT superpower) that won't raise a finger to defend ourselves. Our soldiers are thrown into harms way fearing court martials if they don't read the enemy their Miranda Rights fast enough. Our nations leaders have become so open minded that their brains have fallen out. While that is unfortunately bumper stickerish, it is extremely unfortunately true. At least as far as common sense is concerned. I don't know what the solution is. Part of me wants for Al Quaida to succeed in an attack, but I'd feel too sorry for the good men and women defending them. So I'm going to hope for the impossible, and that the American people rise up and demand that their representatives REPRESENT them, instead of looking after their own self interest and Party politics and special interests with their campaign donations. That the Constituion is re-enshrined as the guiding voice of how our Republic can best be served. Yeah, its going to be a cold, cold day when that happens. So America, it was fun while it lasted. 233 years isn't bad.